Ball Collection (page 19)

Cutout Christmas card with cricket ball
Cutout Christmas card with a hand holding a cricket ball -- a right good innings! Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a rugby ball. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a ball
Greetings card in the shape of a blue and yellow ball with a tabby kitten standing on its hind legs juggling. Date: circa 1890s

Susi - with ball of wool and sewing things
Susi - with a ball of wool and sewing things. 1950s

Susi - resting on a football. 1950s

Susi - with football and boot. 1950s

Susi - as goalkeeper - having a rest. 1950s

The Nose Game - Inquisitive Nose B8, Denotes Spirit of Enquiry. 1927

Florence Upton playing cards - Peg at Ball. circa 1900s

Young brothers playing with ball at a holiday camp
Two young brothers playing football at a holiday camp, with caravans in the background. Presumably somewhere in Northern England. Date: 1960s

Little girl with ball on a medallion-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Pas Seul - A dancer much admired on the dancefloor
Pas Seul (a dance for one person) - A dancer (who has shed her balck mask) much admired on the dancefloor... Date: 1905

Hand-drawn and painted postcard featuring a cricketing Duck
Rather unusual hand-drawn and painted French Birthday Greetings postcard featuring a cricketing Duck, dispatching the ball out of the ground! circa 1920s

Girl and boy on a cutout Christmas card
Girl and boy (Daisy and Fred) on a cutout Christmas card, with verse (front). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Susi - having fun with a football. 1950s

Childs slate with pen and baubles on a Christmas card. early 20th century

Father Christmas with presents on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Two clowns with a ball on a Victorian scrap
Two clowns playing with a ball on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Frogs playing with a ball on eight Victorian scraps. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Girl with toys on a Victorian Christmas scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Society children in fancy dress
Imitating grown-ups, society children in fancy dress - photographs taken at a ball for children given by Lady Clementine Waring for her daughter, Miss Clematis Waring. Top left is the Hon

Costumes at the Artists Costume Ball
A variety of outfits, purchased from London department store, Marshall and Snelgrove, worn by guests at the Artists Costume Ball held at the Princes Galleries in February 1914

The Shakespeare Ball at the Albert Hall, 1911
Guests at the spectacular Shakespeare Ball held at the Albert Hall in June 1911. Four thousand dancers were present clad in dazzling garments

Historical fancy dress costume, 1911
The Fancy Dress Ball Season: Some Historically accurate Dresses Suitable for Coming Dances. In a bid to help out guests at fancy dress balls and to obviate the absurdity of not knowing what you are

Futurist costumes at the Artists Costume Ball
Futurist costumes worn by guests at the Artists Costume Ball held at the Princes Galleries in February 1914. The Tatler comments that the costumes were purchased from Marshall and Snelgrove

Pigs and monkeys in a circus on a postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Lya del Velez and Mr Brookes costumes for Chelsea Arts Ball
Mlle. Lya del Velez, the well-known dancer and her partner, Mr Brookes, in the costumes they wore at the Chelsea Arts Ball which took place on New Years Eve at the Albert Hall, 1932. Date: 1932

Dog in a garden with a ball. Date: circa 1930s

George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, KBE AM (7 February 1923 11 July 2011), styled The Hon. George Lascelles before 1929 and Viscount Lascelles between 1929

Men playing with a ball in heavy surf

The Medicine Ball by David Ghilchik
A fashionable 1930s couple dressed in swimsuits partake in a wholesome exercise game with a medicine ball but with unfortunate consequences. Date: 1932

Society at a costume ball, 1912
Society in fancy dress at a costume ball held at the Savoy Hotel on 23 May 1912. Photographed at a time of great popularity for fancy dress balls

Fancy dress costumes at the Artists Fancy Dress ball
The Bystander magazine passes comment on the various fancy dress costumes seen at the Artists Fancy Dress ball at the Albert Hall in February 1911

Fancy dress costumes at the Picture Ball
A page from The Sketch showing the variety of fancy dress costumes worn at the Picture Ball, held at the Albert Hall in 1913 in aid of the Invalid Kitchens of London

Lady Diana Manners as an Etruscan at the Picture Ball
Lady Diana Manners (later Cooper) dressed as an Etruscan figure at the Picture Ball, held at the Albert Hall in 1913 in aid of the Invalids Kitchens of London

Miss Marjorie Bagot as an Etruscan at the Picture Ball
Miss Marjorie Bagot dressed as one of the figures from an Etruscan frieze, one of a number of costumes on artistic themes

Teddy bear playing croquet. Date: circa 1900s

The Chelsea Arts Club Costume Ball at the Albert Hall, 1912
The Chelsea Arts Club costume ball at the Albert Hall: resting between the dances. Date: 1912

Boys with flag and football, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Six boys standing against a wall with a flag and a football, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1969

Freedom R. A. F. Ball, guests - 1963
A ball to celebrate the granting of the Freedom of Boston (Lincolnshire) to the RAF Station at Coningsby. Guests - Mrs David Matthews

Grosvenor Ball, 1954 - guests
The third annual Grosvenor Ball at Londonderry House, on Park Lane in Mayfair, London. (The building was demolished in 1965.) Guests Mrs R M Hicks, wearing a beautiful tiered ballgown

Couple at the Cambridge Uni Conservative ball
A couple - Miss Colette Hinedson and Mr Leslie Thornton-Wallis - dancing the samba (apparently!) at the Cambridge University Conservative Association Ball. Date: 1949

HMS Marlborough - Quarter Deck dressed for Officers Ball. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

Susi - rain stops play. 1950s

King, the football-playing stallion
King the football-playing stallion was bought by Essex farmer Bill Foyle from a Midlands slaughter market in 1963 for 35. Bill soon discovered that the seven-year-old enjoyed a game of football

Illustration, lady in a garden
Illustration, a lady in a garden asks a little girl if she would like her ball back. Date: 1895

Canadian Pacific cruise passenger playing golf, Egypt
Canadian Pacific cruise passenger from the Empress of Australia cruise liner, about to drive a golf ball from the top of the Great Pyramid, near Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1929

Canadian Pacific Third Class Nursery
Canadian Pacific is the only combined Steamship and Rail route -- a Third Class Nursery. Special care is taken of children. Date: circa 1930s

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